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In situ adv., adj.

In its natural or original position or place; in position; said specif., in geology, of a rock, soil, or fossil, when in the situation in which it was originally formed or deposited.

(Med.) In its original position; not extending beyond the place of origin; localized and undisturbed; as, carcinoma in situ.

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Etymology of 'In situ'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... and sand, thickly covered with trees at one part, and scattered bushes at another. The low woody portion of this island is strewed with flat blocks of the same kind of recent coral conglomerate that occurs in situ on the beach, also with quantities of pumice twelve feet above high-water mark of spring tides. There is little underwood, the trees overhead forming a shady grove. Herbaceous plants are few in number—of the others I shall only mention a wild ...

— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray